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Name |
Sarran (Cursalen?) King of Britons |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
Yes, date unknown |
Person ID |
I120380 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
19 Aug 2013 |
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Notes |
- "THE HISTORY OF THE SCOTS, THE PICTS AND THE BRITONS" by DAVID F. DALE
e-mail : DavidDale1@compuserve.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DavidDale1/Part_1.htm#13
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DavidDale1/Hisco.htm
"Erc ..... daughter of Loarn, according to the Book of Ballymote. Shehad been promised to Sarran king of the Britons but was seduced by PrinceMuiredach of Ireland and was taken back to Ireland by him. Loarn's otherdaughter Pompa was then substitued by King Loarn for Erc and marriedSarran. Usually this story is dismissed as a falsehood - merely anotherunsubstantiated dark age myth out of step with the historical evidence.However we can identify Sarran in the genealogy of the Kings ofStrathclyde : The son of Fer is Cursalen, now if we assume that thisCursalen should properly read Cunsalen, where Cun is derived from theCeltic Cyn meaning King, then we get the name King Salen, therefore thename of the "British" King should be Salen or Sallen, changing to Sarranonly as a result of a misinterpretation or copying error : It is worthnoting that in the Ayrshire dialect the pronunciation of Sallen andSarran will leave the difference between l and r indistinguishable to theuntrained listener - it is surely no coincidence that the village of Sorn(which in itself gives a pronunciation similar to Sarren) is in Ayrshirewhich was part of Strathclyde. The genealogy of the men of Strathclydedoes not say whether Cun Salen was the king of Strathclyde or a king ofanother territory, perhaps because of a mixed Welsh-Irish ancestry. Theannalist may well have simply meant a king from mainland Britain, or aking of the Scots in Britain, using Britons to denote the differencebetween Irish and Scots (The title of the Senchus actually translates asthe "History of the Men of Britain"). We may conclude that it is possiblethat Erc was the mother of the "Scottish" sons of Erc, which may havebeen, as so many designations have, omitted in the genealogies, either bymistake or by design."
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